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[–] teejay@lemmy.world 26 points 2 years ago (12 children)

From the employee's perspective, it's basically an amount of time for you to find a new job while still on the payroll at your current company. There are exceptions, but generally speaking you either won't survive the PIP, or you will but you'll be at the top of the list during the next layoffs. And even if you somehow survive all of that, you're not looking at good raises and career advancement anymore at that company.

So use it as a runway to the next job and move on.

[–] thepianistfroggollum@lemmynsfw.com 3 points 2 years ago (9 children)

Eh, I was on a pip and was promoted during it.

It helps if you're actually valuable to the company (knowledge wise).

[–] Bahnd@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Then I think you got very very lucky.

In my career space, if someones is not immediatly replaceable (even for advanced positions that require degrees) its considered a failure of managment to not have business continuity in place.

You never know when life happens, your lead tech or lab coordinator could have a date with truck-kun and be stuck in the hospital for months. If the important things are not written down then you need to look elsewhere because managment isnt doing their job.

I definitely got lucky by having a good boss (most of the time, but he was bipolar so every so often you got screamed at for no reason).

And yeah, I actually did a lot of work to help with the hit by a bus scenario because everything was so siloed when I started.

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